Example sentences of "a [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This spell enables the caster to transport a friendly or an enemy unit or a single model up to 18″ across the table in any direction . |
| 2 | Though the Japanese are by no means a lazy or an idle race , and though they possess none of that apathetic indolence common to those Eastern races who dwell beneath a tropical sun , still all notions of speed , haste or flurry are utterly foreign to their nature . |
| 3 | Thereafter , you adopt a wholefood diet with a little or no dairy products and no more than one cup of coffee or two cups of tea a day . |
| 4 | one or two members who are resident in St Albans did ask me about their position on item two St Albans Transport Study er the advice that I gave them was that unless they er did which is likely to be affected by any identifiable schemes in the study they do not have a need to declare either a pecuniary or a non-pecuniary interest . |
| 5 | The 10th , 14th and 27th are departure points , whether this means leaving the past behind in a literal or a figurative way . |
| 6 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 7 | Awards may be held on either a full-time or a part-time basis . |
| 8 | I mean , even if you go for a , a Chinky or an Indian it 's |
| 9 | With stable macro policies of either a monetary or a fiscal kind , rational expectations on behalf of economic agents mean that such agents fully appreciate the signals that trigger government policy and the prescriptions that follow , internalizing this into their behaviour . |
| 10 | Following Sambrook 's logic , though he does not use these terms , this image may interpreted either in a descriptive or a normative sense . |
| 11 | We need to know whether it is a 10-strong or a seven-strong management committee , with a majority of management representatives . |
| 12 | All the same , museum curators will have carried out a critical task in selecting the exhibition , in some instances having fended off proposals for inclusions with a political or a particular cultural bias . |
| 13 | So I do n't think anyone here as an elected member , needs to defend their positions if they wish to move from a political or a bureaucratic policy to something which is more pluralist and much more representative of the kind of policies that this council should be discussing not only now but also in the future . |
| 14 | Should it be a historical or an anthropological science ? |
| 15 | It is best to acknowledge that " style " , like " meaning " , is a word which can be used either in a broader or a narrower sense . |
| 16 | virtually no grammatical structure is evident — certainly no proper sentences , and a few or no function words , prefixes or suffixes ; |
| 17 | He had in mind a Brookner , a Lively or a Colegate ; a Pym ( Barbara , not Francis ) would be a comfort ; anything but Martin Amis . |
| 18 | It is believed that this is the first such interchange to be arranged between a British or a European social research group and one in the People 's Republic of China . |
| 19 | Loss of a clear or a bloodstained , watery fluid from the nose or ear . |
| 20 | Sisters were categorised by Orton ( 1980 ) as having either a high or a low student orientation . |
| 21 | It does not make any appreciable difference whether the solid is glassy or crystalline or even polymeric , nor does it matter whether it has a high or a low Young 's modulus 50 long as it more or less obeys Hooke 's law , virtually up to failure . |
| 22 | She said Naomi appeared to live in a world of her own and was either on a high or a low , adding : ‘ She was a lovely child . ’ |
| 23 | Will students in receipt of a grant or an allowance who are paid once per term have a high or a low transactions demand for money relative to their income ? |
| 24 | Bibliographic citations , adequate for most commonly used bibliographic packages , in either a free or a tightly structured format ; and , |
| 25 | Mary Helen Washington 's book is a formidable and elegant work of scholarship , a reference work to dip into time and time again , and a reminder that there is no such thing as a free or an easy book . |
| 26 | Lovely , now me , I 'm an ex-M A T S A member , I 'm in the security industry , at the moment I have n't got a section , so what am I a Bosnian , a Serbian or a Croatian I do n't know . |
| 27 | Research on UK quoted companies indicates that over half use either a wrong or an inappropriate technique for evaluating leases ( ‘ The Leasing Decision : A Comparison of Theory and Practice ’ by Colin Drury and Steven Braund , Accounting and Business Research , Vol 20 No 79 , Summer 1990 , pp 179–191 ) . |
| 28 | Finn , in turn , often appeared in the guise of a hind or a hunting dog , and his children took the form of fauns ( see FAUNUS ) when wishing to escape danger . |
| 29 | It may be a direct or an indirect restraint or it may be contained in an agreement outside the primary contract between the parties . |
| 30 | A later generation was to see Cistercians sent out as missionaries , especially among the heretics of the Languedoc ; and the wandering preacher — a very familiar figure in the twelfth century — became in the thirteenth a Franciscan or a Dominican friar . |